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  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Help me choose hardware for my first custom setupEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Currently have a setup similar to yours, except the chip is N100 (12th gen Intel, 4 e-cores) and 16 gigs of ram. Running Jellyfin with hardware accelerated transcoding into VP9 and HEVC just fine. Nextcloud is ok too, kinda slow but I think that’s because of my networking.

    It’s one of the cheapest pre made n100 mini PCs I could find on Amazon.

    Just make sure that you have enough IO for your needs. Mine has only three usb ports, I plugged in two usb hard drives and a Zigbee dongle and now I’m out of ports. Gonna have to get a hub now.

    If you have the money I’d recommend getting a mini pc with an amd ryzen apu.

  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?English
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    16 days ago

    Servers are just really big computers. I started off with a Chinese Raspberry Pi clone, then upgraded to an old mac mini + mini pc + a cheap cloud server (VPS). As you can see, you can turn any old computer into a server.

    The cloud is expensive but reliable. Having your own server is cheap but it will go offline with every network fault or brownout. If you’re serious about self hosting I suggest buying a UPS.

    Whatever computer you decide to use as a server, make sure it is quiet. When I first started, I tried to use an old 2010 aah workstation as a server, but the fans were so loud I couldn’t sleep, it was driving me crazy.

  • jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•[problem] Running my server impairs traffic on the networkEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Do you have a 15mb DSL connection or something? If it’s close to 100mb or more you should be fine on this front. Maybe your router is super old and cant handle lots of connections that the arr stack requires. You can limit the amount of parallel connections and the total bandwidth available to the arr stack.

    As for Jellyfin, if the problem is your slow connection to the outside internet, then you can force transcode all streams to non local clients to a lower bitrate, but direct stream to local clients (assuming your router can handle that, but I’ve never seen a piece of networking equipment that is slower that 100mbs)

    Also I’d recommend connecting to your router’s web gui and see what it says, how mush traffic is going around and so on. You can usually find your router’s ip and login details on a sticker on the back.